Global Sales Planner

As Global Sales Planner in our EMEA Customer Operations team, you have a crucial role in supporting the Cinema Business Unit achieve its sales forecast numbers. You will be the first point of contact on material availability topics in a sales order context. Your key responsibilities include managing priorities within the orderbook based on your judgement on how to best achieve the forecast with the available stock and production output. 

 

Job Description:

 

• You decide on priorities to assign material to worldwide customer orders and Barco intercompany orders, primarily for the Cinema Business Unit, balancing out different factors and aligning with relevant stakeholders.
• You collaborate closely with the sales coordination teams of the Barco local organizations and provide the teams with the latest status update with regards to material availability dates & lead times. 
• You are their single point of contact for SAP-related material planning matters and for handling intercompany orders.
• You communicate priorities towards production planning for related production orders.
• You provide proactive feedback to supply chain to enable them to adapt forecast & safety stock levels.
• You handle customer and internal escalations related to material availability and create awareness within the internal Barco organization.
• You trigger and actively contribute to process improvements.

 

Qualifications:

 

• You ideally have a first experience in a similar position within an international, industrial environment. 
• You demonstrate a willingness and confidence to make decisions regarding priority setting. At the same time, you are also able to adjust plans and priorities in response to changing circumstances and unexpected challenges.
• You have both an analytical and critical mindset, evaluating multiple factors and making informed decisions quickly and confidently.
• You have strong interpersonal skills, communicating and collaborating with a broad variety of internal stakeholders within the business unit and operational teams, and being able to motivate teams towards a certain goal.
• You can work independently, have excellent organizational skills and can keep a structured overview of your tasks. 
• You are an expert in the SAP sales order & planning processes, or your aim is to become one.
• Finally, you are computer literate and fluent in English and preferably also Dutch. Knowledge of other languages is an important asset.

 

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